[enchanted bobbin]

What a fun discussion thread!

My first foray into Oliver + S patterns was a lazy days skirt in June 2010

…turned into a series of them, actually, as a prelude to the Playdate dress a couple of weeks later!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/48854966@N04/4730491558/in/set-72157624254707048/

[mrsc1345]

My first submission to flickr was the bedtime story pajamas that I sewed up in August of 2009, but didn’t get the guts to submit until December!

https://secure.flickr.com/photos/41810541@N02/4227811978/in/photostream

But my very, very first successful sewing project (ever) was a lazy days skirt, way back in February of ’09!

https://secure.flickr.com/photos/51885524@N05/7772518452/in/photostream

I had been wanting to sew up these cute O+S patterns so badly (there were only a few at the time!) that I went out and bought a sewing machine and through great trial and error learned to use it to sew all these cute things I was seeing on the web. I still remember puzzling over the directions with my husband like the total newb I was, “Right sides together? How can you tell which is the right side and which is the left side? I will never learn to sew!!” It sounds silly to tell most people, but learning to sew has been the (second) most fulfilling thing I have done in my life. So thanks, for all the inspiration!

[April Henry]

Love this topic! My very first submission was in 2008. I had not ever heard of flickr “groups” and was intimidated and nervous about posting a homemade garment to something as especially unique as Oliver + S….. back then it was my goal to collect every pattern and make it at least once (ha! I am waaay behind!) But here I am still an Oliver + S pattern collector and sewist (dare I say, exclusively — it’s so hard now to venture out now!)

Anyway, it was the Swing Set Tunic & Skirt. Sweetpea was only 4-years-old (sniff sniff):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/12011496@N00/2691255967/

[dkbnyc]

I think my upload date is wrong in Flickr. My first pattern was the playdate dress for my oldest who was 5. That was almost exactly 2 years ago. I think it was Oliver and S that really got me sewing again. I just can’t remember how it all happened. My taste isn’t usually this classic, nor my color palate this sedate, but I really love this dress and am very proud of it.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/darcibee/5924842570/in/pool-oliverands|darcibee